Back in the day when Dick Tracy talked into his video phone watch people thought that was just impossible. Well today we are easily convinced that things we see in science fiction is all subject to possibility. Many technologies found in these popular films and tv shows are now commonplace objects.
The silly shoe phone used by Maxwell Smart was just ludicrous. It wasn’t plugged into anything, it had its own power, and it worked EVERYWHERE!!! And now everyone seems to have one but we don’t keep it in your shoe.
Enterainment Weekly hits up on 12 pieces of tech that we might not see but would still be cool.
1 – Neuralizer – Men in Black
2 – Lightsaber – Star Wars
3 – Gestural Computer – Minority Report
4 – Makeup Applicator – Fifth Element
5 – Instant Information – The Matrix
6 – Point of View Gun – Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
7 – Universal Remote – Click
8 – Radio Watch – Dick Tracy
9 – Batmobile – Batman
10- Time Travelling Deloran – Back to the Future
11 – Hoverboard – Back to the Future 2
12 – Communicator – Star Trek
Some of the obvious ones that came to mind on that list would have been Star Trek’s transporters or flying cars.
I think in the case of things like the Gestural Computer that we could likely have interactive computers, though unlikely based on holographic interaction, touch screen computers and the Windows Tabletop PC are not far off. Even the Star Trek communicators are not unrealistic. Cell phones are getting smaller and new models have GPS locators in them already.
I don’t think I would want a Lightsaber simply for its danger factor. Sure it would be handy for cutting… well anything. But if you drop it while it’s on, realistically it would burrow to the center of the earth. And I’d really hate to have it pointed the wrong way when I turned it on. Whoa Nelly.
So what other “impossible movie tech” would you like to see for real?
